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Scientists overcome major hurdle in the ability to regrow teeth (www.bbc.com)

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Scientists have taught cell to communicate with each other, allowing them to leave instruction to become a tooth cell. This is seen as a major step in the effort to regrow teeth.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Teratoma has entered the chat.

I'd advise only reading up on them if you don't mind a bit of body horror, and only doing an image search if you really mean it.

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